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Libya vacations.

The three traditional parts of Libya are Tripolitania, Fezzan and the Cyrenaica.

Municipalities in Libya : Ajdabiya, Al 'Aziziyah, Al Fatih, Al Jabal al Akhdar, Al Jufrah, Al Khums, Al Kufrah, An Nuqat al Khams, Ash Shati', Awbari, Az Zawiyah, Banghazi, Darnah, Ghadamis, Gharyan, Misratah, Murzuq, Sabha, Sawfajjin, Surt, Tarabulus, Tarhunah, Tubruq, Yafran, Zlitan.

Main ciries in Libya : Tripoli, Benghazi, Sebha, Tobruk, Derna, Zawiah, Khoms and Misurata.

Libya is a country in North Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, located between Egypt on the east, Sudan on the southeast, Chad and Niger on the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.

Capital City of Libya: Tripoli


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Car Rental Libya
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 Almaged Car Rental Company  -  Bab Ben Ghashir Tripoli - Libya
 Europcar Libya
Also Premier Chauffeur Drive [ more traditional chauffeur service and is appropriate for an executive who requires a car and driver for the day ]

Hotels in Libya

 Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel - Tripoli 
Libya's leading five star hotel the Corinthia Bab Africa. Located at the heart of Tripoli's central business district, the stylish five-star Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel, features two imposing towers dominating the waterfront's skyline.
 Choose Libya

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

 Mountain Travel Sobek  -  Libya Desert Adventure
 Remembrance Travel  -  Tripoli, Tobruk & Benghazi
 Responsibletravel.com  -  African safaris & holidays
100's of holidays to Africa from dozens of leading specialist tour companies and accommodations who are passionate about conserving Africa's wildlife and benefiting its people.



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 Libtra Tours
 Magic Libya
History, Travel facts, Photo Gallery, Sites, Tours, Cruises, Hotels

Travel Guides Libya / Related Books

 South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara  -  Justin Marozzi
An account of Justin Marozzi's 1500-mile journey by camel along the slave-trade routes of the Libyan Sahara. Marozzi and his travelling companion Ned had never travelled in the desert, nor had they ridden camels before embarking on this expedition. Encouraged by a series of idiosyncratic Touareg and Tubbu guides, they learnt the full range of desert survival skills, including how to master their five faithful camels. The caravan of two explorers, five camels with distinctive personalities and their guides undertook a gruelling journey across some of the most inhospitable territory on earth. Despite threats from Libyan officialdom and the ancient, natural hardships of the desert, Marozzi and Ned found themselves growing ever closer to the land and its people. More than a travelogue, "South from Barbary" is a fascinating history of Saharan exploration and efforts by early British explorers to suppress the African slave trade. It evokes the poetry and solitude of the desert, the companionship of man and beast, the plight of a benighted nation, and the humour and generosity of its resilient people.
Paperback 320 pages (May 7, 2002); Publisher: Flamingo; Language: English; ISBN: 0006531172
 Libya - Lonely Planet  -  Anthony Ham
Covering the splendours of the Sahara, from rock art, isolated lakes, mud-brick towns and magnificent sand dunes, this book is the ideal companion for travel to the country. Contains a special section on Roman and Greek ruins along the Mediterranean coast, as well as a historical and cultural overview for in-flight reading.
Paperback 264 pages (March 2002); Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; Language: English; ISBN: 0864426992
 Libya Handbook: The Travel Guide / Footprint Handbooks  -  James Azema
This guidebook to Libya contains practical travel information, as well as background material on subjects such as prehistoric Saharan rock art, Roman imperial building, the Berbers of the Jabal Nafusa, and Italian colonial architecture. Excursions to south-eastern Tunisia and Alexandria in Egypt are covered. Comprehensive information is included on how to plan a trip - from getting the documents to when to go - as well as background information on culture, history, religion, art and architecture
Paperback 338 pages (November 1, 2000); Publisher: Footprint Handbooks; Language: English; ISBN: 1900949776

Transportation / How do I travel to Libya

Libya's main entry points are Tripoli and Benghazi or by Libyan Tunisian or Libyan Egyptian Border. You can travel by air, or ports. You can also enter from Egypt, Tunisia or from the south of Libya by land. Please make sure to have preparations and that your Libyan contacts know about your plans

[ 16 national and international civilian airports ]

 Tripoli Airport  -  Tripoli International Airport [ IATA: TIP, ICAO: HLLT ]
Coordinates 32°40′10″N, 13°09′24″E. See Wikipedia.

 Libyan Civil Aviation Authority

 Emirates US  -  Flight tickets Tripoli 

 British Airways - Flight tickets Libya
 Air Malta

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights - price comparison possible

 Libyan Arab Airlines

 Ferries  -  maybe from Malta

 Train  -  no train system since 1965

 Buses  -  see Wikitravel - Get_around

 Online map of Libya [ Uni Texas - Perry-Castañeda Library - Map Collection ]


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 Travel Insurance

 Tourist Board  -  General People's Committe for tourism

 Government  -  see Official Website Gadaffi

 Tripoli  -  Capital City of Libya
Libya's biggest city, the queen of the seas. It is an historical site. the city of Islamic civilization, Arab art and handicraft, where every monument tells a story. Tripoli has changed little since its foundation in the first millennium BC: it is still a lush garden filled with olive trees, palms, grapevines, and orange groves. The city has a wealth of old and new monuments.

 Tripolitania
 Fezzan
 Cyrenaica

 Libdah  -  historic place
 Port of Banghazi
 Sabratah  -  historic place
 Suluq
In Suluq you will find the mausoleum of Omar Mokhtar, hero of the Libyan Resistance during the Italian occupation.
 Tubruq

 Beaches in Libya
Libya offers you two thousand kilometers of splendid beaches, and some beautiful small cities each with its typical architecture and special characteristics, like Auwarah, Tubruq, Misratah, Az Zawiyah, Al-Khums, and Zlitan.
 Desert of Libya
Explore Libya's desert in Wadi Ash Shati, the plain of Awaynat, Brak, Murzuq, and the oases of Al Kufrah,  Zallah and Bazimah. Then cool off in Al Bayada' or near Al Marj, or on the plain of Darnah.
 Go Sahara - German web site - pictures
 Mountains
Take the highway east to the magnificent cities of the Green Mountain: Darnah with its falls and splendid coast; Al Bayda', a quiet city high up in the mountains; ancient Shah'hat (Cyrene) and beautiful Susah (Apollonia), Tulmaythah, Tukrah, Ra's Al Hilal.
 Sahara Overland
The website of the book, featuring travel news, travellers' reports, country information and other resources, plus updates for, and sales of Sahara Overland as well as other books and video/dvds.

 News form Libya  -  Aldaleel Newspaper [ Arabic ]
 University in Libya  -  Al Tahdi University [ mostly Arabic ]

Cuisine - Libya foods / Recipes

The Best of African Cooking 
By Manjase Banda (Author), Esanjam (Producer)
Paperback: 144 pages; Publisher: Esanjam; 2 Revised edition (March 14, 2007); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0954682130; ISBN-13: 978-0954682132  
 African Recipes 
 African Studies  -  The African Cookbook - Menus & Recipes from Africa

History of Libya

Independence: 24 December 1951 (from Italy)

Tripoli and Cyrenaica were Roman colonies; and were conquered by Arab Muslims in the 7th century. By the 19th century it was an increasingly independent Ottoman province; and came under the control of Italy in 1911. After the Second World War Libya was granted independence, as a condition of the Allied peace treaty with Italy.

 Libya's History  -  Wikipedia
Ancient Libya [ Tripolitania and Cyrenaica ] to 647, Islamic Tripolitania and Cyrenaica 647-1911, 3 Italian Colony, 1911-1951, Modern Libya

 Gadaffi
Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, born c. 1942, has been the de facto leader of Libya since 1969. See
Wikipedia and Official Website Gadaffi.

Libya has played host to many civilizations, and has enriched civilization in its turn, with writings, drawings and engravings in the caves of Tadrart mountains, and archaeological treasures from Ataft. The Phoenician, Roman, and Byzantine ports of Tripoli, Sabratah, Libdah, Shah'hat, Susah, Tukrah, and Talmitha.
The old Islamic cities such as Sirt, Darnah, and Ajdaniya, and other cities in the heart of the desert, including Ghadames, Zuwaylah, Jalu, Ojla, Ghat, and Fezzan. Not forgetting the places and fortresses of Gharyan, Mizdah, Al-Qaryat, Yifran, Jadu, Nalut, Misallatah, and Awinat.

 Three Months in the Libyan Desert 
Gerhard Rohlfs, C.Vance Haynes (Introduction), Helga Wocherl (Translator)
In the winter of 1873-74, Gerhard Rohlfs led a scientific expedition, at the behest of Khedive Ismail, to explore the Great Sand Sea west of Egypt's Dakhla Oasis and to reach Kufra Oasis in what is now Libya. The expedition set a new standard for scientific exploration of the Sahara: prior to this, European travelers in the eastern Sahara had kept mostly to established caravan routes. And whereas Rohlfs had earlier explored parts of the western Sahara more or less on his own, on this expedition he took along several leading scientists: Dr. Karl Zittel, a geologist-paleontologist; Dr. Wilhem Jordan, a geographer and geodetic surveyor; Paul Ascherson, a botanist; and Ph. Remele, a noted photographer. Together they made up the first interdisciplinary team to conduct a geoscientific exploration of the region. Publication of Zittel's About the Geologic Structure of the Libyan Desert in 1880 was the beginning of the systematic geologic mapping of Egypt. Three Months in the Libyan Desert is Rohlfs' account of the expedition, its adventures, and its many trials. The original German edition remains one of the classic accounts of early desert exploration, and this edition makes it available for the first time in English.
Paperback 272 pages (January 2005); Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press; Language: English; ISBN: 9774248384 
 Tobruk: Birth of a Legend - Frank Harrison
The siege of Tobruk in 1941 was the first time the British army succeeded in defeating a German army operation in World War II. Despite all the ingenuity of Erwin Rommel, the 'Desert Fox', and the bravery of his Afrika Korps, the outnumbered and outgunned British garrison held the port until a relief mission, 'Operation Battleaxe', drove back the German and Italian forces. It was during this epic siege that 'Lord Haw Haw', the German propaganda broadcaster, coined the phrase 'Desert Rats'. He intended it as an insult, but the soldiers at Tobruk took a perverse pride in the name which became the nickname of the 8th Army in general and the 7th Armoured division in particular.
Paperback 352 pages (April 1, 2003); Publisher: Cassell military; Language: English; ISBN: 0304362581

Music, Art & Culture, Events & Entertainment

Various kinds of Arab music are popular, including masoud and Arab classical music. The Tuareg, living in the southern, Saharan part of the country, have their own distinctive folk music.

 Libyana  -  Libyan Culture 
Libyana is a collective, volunteer effort of a group of Libyan women and men who love their culture and heritage. We invite you to share in samples of our history, literature, art, music, and folklore.
 Dido  -  Wikipedia
In Greek and Roman sources Elissa or Dido appears as the founder and first Queen of Carthage in Tunisia. She is best known from the account given by the Roman poet Virgil in his Aeneid. See also Greek Mythology Link, Phoenicia.org [ Elissar, Dido, the Queen of Carthage and her city ] en Queen Didi [ open, multilingual, cosmopolitan website, dedicated to Elissa the Jocund, alias Queen Dido (a. 840-760 B.C.), and to her inexhaustible aspects: historical, social, poetical, spiritual ones, and so on ]

Web Portal / Libyan Search Engine / Libyan Directory

 Chooselibya.com
 Libya Online
Information about Libya from different aspects, from Arts, Music to Tourism and Technology
 Libyanet.com
 Libya - Arabinfoseek
 Libyalogue.com

 Yellow Pages Libya

 Yahoo Libya Directories 

 Allafrica.com [English and French]
Posting over 700 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as a 400,000-article searchable archive [which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997].
 Resources on Africa
News and Current Affairs, Arts and Culture, African History, Travel Guides and Hotels in Africa.


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